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Lehigh Microfinance Program & Club

Established in 2005, the United Nations International Year of Microcredit, The Lehigh University's Microfinance Program.

housed in the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise, aims to foster and promote understanding of the development and impact of microfinance locally and globally. To accomplish these goals, the Program supports faculty research, conferences and workshops, curriculum development, technology innovation projects in partnership with Microfinance Institutions globally, and international

study abroad opportunities, and works closely with departments and programs throughout the university, including International Relations Department, the Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development programs, and the Social Entrepreneurship activities of the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship. The Microfinance Program is one of the few programs nationwide housed in a department of business and economics that is devoted to research and teaching of this pathbreaking approach to development. The related student Microfinance Club is a vibrant and active campus organization. Activities include an internship program with microfinance institutions both domestically and internationally, onsite visits to microfinance organizations, fundraising for microfinance institutions in the developing and developed world, assisting local microentrepreneurs to grow their business, and inviting well-known practitioners to share their expertise and best practices on campus.

06/18/2023

Lehigh Business iLUminate Podcast May 10, 2023 In this episode of Lehigh University’s College of Business iLUminate podcast, we are speaking with Todd Watkins about his recent research on how access to financial services affects the risk of death from COVID-19 globally. Watkins is a professor of economics and has served as executive director of the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise…...

Lehigh Business iLUminate Podcast May 10, 2023 In this episode of Lehigh University’s College of Business iLUminate podcast, we are speaking with Todd Watkins about his recent resear…

12/08/2022

My latest blog on the inclusive finance sector here: Post-COVID Crisis & Opportunity in African Inclusive Finance. This is the sixth and final in a Martindale Center at Lehigh's blog series hosted by Accion's Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) that highlights takeaways from a global workshop at Lehigh University, where leaders from the inclusive finance sector discussed the question of whether financial inclusion is more relevant than ever during the pandemic crisis.

My latest blog on the inclusive finance sector here: Post-COVID Crisis & Opportunity in African Inclusive Finance. This is the sixth and final in a Martindale Center at Lehigh’s blog seri…

11/13/2022

From Lehigh Business magazine, Issue 7, Fall 2021 Bringing the Heat (and Light): Todd Watkins is tracking the diversification of microfinance. By Margie Peterson Microfinance–the practice of giving small loans, savings accounts and other financial services to low-income individuals or groups who wouldn’t otherwise have access to such services–gained international attention when Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in developing countries in 2006....

11/08/2022

Co-authored by me and Shannon Mudd, director of the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative at Haverford College. Second in a blog series—based on a global workshop at Lehigh University's Martindale Center—published by Accion International's Center for Financial Inclusion. Digitally Reshaping Inclusive Financial Services in the Wake of COVID-19 Other blogs from the Lehigh global workshop here.

Co-authored by me and Shannon Mudd, director of the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative at Haverford College. Second in a blog series—based on a global workshop at Lehigh University’…

08/02/2012

Congrats to Rangan Varadan, CBE PhD alum - his microfinance startup MicroGraam covered by Times of India http://is.gd/TOW78N

Amidst the regulatory upheaval and scramble for fresh capital that defines India's microfinance sector, a new breed of micro lenders are quietly challenging the conventional norms of the industry with an internet-based funding model and low-cost loans.

02/09/2012

Combining your passion and doing good: Huff Post blurb by former Lehigh Microfinance Club president Fred Graves about the Microfinance hip-hop video he made for Grameen while and intern there.

As an intern for the Grameen Foundation, I was excited at the chance to combine my passions for microfinance and for hip-hop music. The result is the first hip-hop microfinance music video.

02/01/2012

Youtube blurb on Lehigh's Microfinance Immersion Field Program in Kenya, 2011

Kenya has a vibrant microfinance industry, which provides financial services to the poor. Over the course of ten days, students gained exposure to a wide ran...

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